Islamic Front

The Islamic Front, also called Jabhat al-Islamiyya, was founded on 22 November 2013 by seven like-minded Syrian rebel groups during the Syrian Civil War. The Al-Tawhid Brigade, Ahrar ash-Sham, Liwa al-Haqq, Suqour al-Sham, Jaish al-Islam, Ansar al-Sham, and Kurdish Islamic Front joined forces to form a moderate rebel group backed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

History
In 2011, with the start of the Syrian Civil War, the opposition against the Syrian Arab Republic created the Al-Tawhid Brigade, Ahrar ash-Sham, Liwa al-Haqq, Suqour al-Sham, Jaish al-Islam, Ansar al-Sham, and the Kurdish Islamic Front, among many other rebel groups. On 22 November 2013, the seven groups combined to form the Islamic Front alliance, an army of over 60,000 moderate Muslims that sought to create a democracy in Syria. They allied with the Free Syrian Army, the al-Qaeda Al-Nusra Front, Army of Mujahideen, and other moderate groups and were funded by Saudi Arabia; they opposed the regime of Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic State.

In 2014, during the battle of Aleppo, the Islamic Front and the Al-Nusra Front troops were on the frontlines of combat with the regime and Islamic State. The IF was dealt a crushing blow on 9 September 2014 when Hassan Aboud and other key leaders were killed in a suicide bomb blast triggered by the Islamic State, but they remained in Aleppo to fight the regime into October.